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Re:When Adolescents Give Up Pot, Their Cognition Quickly Imp... by mbrock on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @09:44AM (#18345605)
There might also be some risk of psychological damage when you use a criminalized substance that has anxiety as a common side effect. For example, it's easy to see how that could make you a bit reclusive.

So anyone who's really concerned about the mental health of cannabis users is obliged to consider the damaging effects of its very criminality.

(There are all kinds of other factors. Like cannabis use being correlated with higher trait openness, which has its own particular correlations with certain personality disorders, et cetera.)

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Re:When Adolescents Give Up Pot, Their Cognition Quickly Imp... by toyg on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @09:51AM (#18345656)
Not to mention that such criminalized substance might well have been mishandled by criminal resellers with no regard for public health. Any time one buys a criminalised substance, it's like he was going to eat a box of unlabelled chocolate: maybe it's safe to eat, or maybe it's full of rat excrement - you don't know until it's too late.
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